LUDLOW - A Springfield man was arraigned in Palmer District court Tuesday after striking his pregnant girlfriend so forcefully with two gallon milk containers that the containers ruptured, police said.

"She was on her way home after shopping at Big Y and he struck her in the chest with two Hood milk gallons," Valadas said. "He struck her so hard that he ruptured the bottom of the two containers of milk and sent the girlfriend, which is eight-months pregnant, flying into a glass door."

Libiszewski has been charged with malicious destruction, assault by means of a dangerous weapon on a pregnant woman and domestic assault and battery on a pregnant woman.

Valadas said the woman refused medical attention, but did not seem seriously injured.